Madison Section Newsletter Find the online archive at http://ieee-msn.truenym.net/news.html Vol. 14, No. 8 Serving IEEE Members of South Central Wisconsin October 2011 Chirps Everywhere: Time and Frequency Analysis of Transient AM/FM Waveforms Date: Friday, October 28, 2011 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Speaker: Dr. Patrick Flandrin, Ecole Superieure de Lyon Agenda: Informal networking will begin at 11:30am. Presentation will begin at 12:00pm. Location: Promega BioPharmaceutical Technology Center 5445 E Cheryl Pkwy, Room Number: 122 Madison, WI 53711 Menu: Lunch meal provided: $5 for IEEE members, $10 for non-members, free for students. RSVP: Deadline: October 24. Go to http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/8693 to register. Please send questions or difficulties to Mark Vincent at [email protected]. Non-member guests are always welcome! . Abstract Chirps (i.e., transient AM-FM waveforms) are ubiquitous in nature and man-made systems, and they may serve as a paradigm for many non-stationary deterministic signals. The time-frequency plane is a natural representation space for chirps, and we will here review a number of questions related to chirps, as addressed from a time-frequency perspective. Global and local approaches will be described for matching and/or adapting representations to chirps. As a corollary, joint time-frequency descriptions of chirps will be shown to allow for effective definitions of instantaneous frequencies" via localized trajectories on the plane. A number of applications will be mentioned, ranging from bioacoustics to turbulence and gravitational waves. Biography Patrick Flandrin gained his engineer's diploma from the ICPI Lyon in 1978, became Docteur- Ingénieur in 1982 then Docteur d'Etat ès Sciences Physiques (higher level doctorate in physics) in 1987, at the INPG de Grenoble. He joined the CNRS in 1982 where he is currently a research director. He has just been awarded the 2010 CNRS Silver Medal. Since 1991, he has worked at the physics laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, in the SISYPHE (SIgnals, SYstems and PHysics) research team. His present research themes are: non stationary signals, time-frequency, wavelets, and laws of scale and complex systems. The common denominator of his research, which is interdisciplinary in nature, consists in the signal perspective which places Patrick Flandrin's work at the confluence of applied mathematics, physics and computing. He seeks to provide a precise mathematical framework for the methods he focuses on, to enable a simple physical interpretation of them and to associate them with efficient calculation algorithms. IEEE Entrepreneurs & Consultants Network, Madison Networking Meeting . Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011 Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm Purpose: Officer’s Meeting. Location: Madison Area Technical College (MATC West Campus) 302 S. Gammon Road (Across from West Towne Mall) Madison, WI 53717 ... Telephone: 608-246-6100 Parking: Open parking, so come early to get a closer spot. Process: Members are encouraged to make introductions, describe endeavors, and make request for: contacts in target companies, needs, resources. Bring your elevator speech and rolodex! RSVP: Tim Chapman ([email protected]) Madison Section Newsletter Find the online archive at http://ieee-msn.truenym.net/news.html Vol. 14, No. 8 Serving IEEE Members of South Central Wisconsin October 2011 Glacier Hills Wind Park Tour! starting from University of Wisconsin-Madison Date: Monday, November 7, 2011 Time: 12:45pm - 5:00pm (4.25 hours) Speaker: Mitch Bradt, PE, Dept. of Eng. Professional Development Rick O'Connor, PE, We Energies Engineering Manager Mike Jackovich, PE, We Energies Electrical Engineer Agenda: Bus leaves from Engineering Hall at 12:45pm sharp! Bus returns to Engineering Hall at 5:00pm. Location: UW Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706 Menu: No lunch meal provided: $5 for IEEE members, $10 for non-members, free for students. RSVP: Deadline: October 31. Go to http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/8893 to register. Please send questions or difficulties to Mark Vincent at [email protected]. Non-member guests are always welcome! . Abstract The Glacier Hills Wind Park, located in the towns of Randolph and Scott in Columbia County, is designed to generate 162 megawatts (MW) of electricity and will be capable of powering approximately 45,000 average residential homes. The site will consist of 90 Vestas V-90 1.8 MW Type 3 turbines. Construction began on May 17, 2010, and will be completed by the end of 2011. The project is being constructed by a Wisconsin-based alliance that includes The Boldt Company of Appleton, Michels Corporation of Brownsville and Edgerton Contractors, Inc. of Oak Creek. This tour will include a presentation during the bus ride to the site on some electrical aspects of the Type 3 turbine and the GHWP. While on the tour, a We Energies Project Engineer will discuss the development, layout and construction of the GHWP project, including a visit to one of the turbines and to the collector substation. Rick O'Conor will provide the tour of the wind farm and Mike Jackovich will provide the substation tour. Biography Mitch Bradt is a Program Director for continuing engineering education in the disciplines of Wind Energy, Power Electronics, Electrical Distribution and Electrical Safety. Prior to being in academia, he has been a consulting engineer designing substations and wind farms, has worked at a manufacturer of grid connected power electronic equipment (D-SMES, D-VAR, STATCOM), and got to blow up aircraft while serving the the US Air Force. He received his BSEE from Marquette University in 1993 and MSEE with a focus on Utility Application of Power Electronics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996. IEEE Entrepreneurs & Consultants Network, Madison Networking Meeting . Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011 Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm Purpose: Officer’s Meeting. Location: Madison Area Technical College (MATC West Campus) 302 S. Gammon Road (Across from West Towne Mall) Madison, WI 53717 ... Telephone: 608-246-6100 Parking: Open parking, so come early to get a closer spot. Process: Members are encouraged to make introductions, describe endeavors, and make request for: contacts in target companies, needs, resources. Bring your elevator speech and rolodex! RSVP: Tim Chapman ([email protected]) Madison Section Newsletter Find the online archive at http://ieee-msn.truenym.net/news.html Vol. 14, No. 8 Serving IEEE Members of South Central Wisconsin October 2011 Monthly Section Meetings Monthly Networking Meetings The third Thursday of Jan.-May and Sep.-Dec. The first Thursday of every month is reserved is reserved for a meeting to provide for a meeting to provide networking recent research, developments, trends opportunities for members who are and/or innovations in one of our consultants or entrepreneurs. Bring your membership’s technical areas. elevator speech and rolodex! Section Meeting Schedule for 2011 Networking Meeting Schedule for 2011 (schedule subject to change) (schedule subject to change) . (past) January 19, Wind Turbine Generators (past) January 3, Kickoff meeting for 2011. (past) January 20, Capitol Heat & Power Plant (past) March 3, SBIR Process and Panel. (past) February 17, Tesla Coil Design/Build (past) April 7, Sector67 – Overview of (past) March 17, Privacy of Elec. Health Info. Madison innovation environment. (past) April 12, 21st Century Electric Machines (past) May 19, SADT/IDEF0 Modeling August 4, Working on the Network. (past) August 18, Debugging Electronics (past) September 1, Consumer Digital Storage October 6, Telepresence. October 28, Distinguished Lecturer on Signal December 1, IEEE Tools for Self Promotion. Processing: Dr. Patrick Flandrin on time- frequency energy distributions. November 7, Wind Farm Tour at Glacial Hills, Wisconsin. Mitch Bradt, PE. November 17, TQM Experiences in the High Precision Instrumentation Industry. Tour the Bruker, AXS facility!! December 15, Voting results for 2012 Officers Election. 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